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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Kurtz at FOX......why?

BREAKING NEWS is that Howard Kurtz of CNN is moving to FOX. And he's replacing my very favorite show on FOX, News Watch, where left and right journalists cover the bias in the news.

Are they KIDDING? And FOX says "he's the most accomplished media reporter in the country."

I am a better media reporter than Howard Kurtz is, right? He's been proven to be biased on occasion and I, of course, never am (Smile). But, really.......couldn't YOU do better? Any one of you could have been a fantastic guest on his CNN show RELIABLE SOURCES and a terrific guest on FOX's News Watch, too, which is apparently going off the air.
Okay...I'm through whining now. Please read Mustang's excellent piece below and join in the terrific commentary! He's just written a great piece in answer to some of your comments today, by the way...that's up for Friday.

Gosh, I hope it's not The Five. I get a kick out of them. I love Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld, and get a kick out of gruff, taciturn Bob Beckel. He's been around so long he's sort of like one of the family even if he is wrong most of the time..

FT, The Five is apparently REALLY high in ratings...I'm not so fond of Beckel but when he said he'd really have to have reconsidered his vote for Obama if the truth about the NSA had happened before the election, I was impressed at his honesty. He does say things like that from time to time, but he still disappoints me with such leftwing dopiness. There IS something in him which at least LOVES this country..kind of like Juan Williams after he came to FOX because they Left didn't like his having nailed muslims correctly.

CI, exactly! That was the only show I really really liked on FOX. Very sad about this.

But, who knows? Maybe he'll get more even handed and even have some of the group from News Watch on? I hope so.

In earlier years, I rather liked Kurtz but he became a CNN hack like Chris Matthews changed a LOT when he joined MSNBC; he's like a stupid caricature of himself now, sadly. He used to be fairly even handed.

What bothers me is that FOX is disdained for hosts who are billed as EDITORIALS...like O'Reilly, Hannity, etc. They are NOT NEWS but the left hides behind that ridiculous misnomer and slams FOX for "biased news".

CI, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnel's is an admitted socialist...I have yet to see anything like that on FOX. Perhaps you have.Actually, I'm trying to think who does 'real news' on MSNBC.

I'm not sure if you think I'm stupid or so agenda-driven that I don't see that FOX slants to the Right. But anyone who suggests that MSNBC slants to the left only to the same degree is not paying attention.

"How you can read my comments and think I'm not understanding you is almost unbelievable to me."

I certainly apologize if I'm wrong on this point, but when you preface with this:

"What bothers me is that FOX is disdained for hosts who are billed as EDITORIALS...like O'Reilly, Hannity, etc. They are NOT NEWS but the left hides behind that ridiculous misnomer and slams FOX for "biased news"."

And follow with this:

"MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnel's is an admitted socialist...I have yet to see anything like that on FOX. "

And accuse others of this:

"But anyone who suggests that MSNBC slants to the left only to the same degree is not paying attention."

I'm left thinking that someone is attempting to hold a personal bias about commentary programming to be a universal truth about news reporting.....and engaging in one statement the very action that they decry in a previous statement.

But like I said, I really don't see the allure of using this type of partisan device in any adult conversation; fellow travelers are going to wildly agree, the opposition is going to vehemently disagree....and it's not even in pursuit of a rational discussion of actual reporting bias.

It's merely playing the game that the parties and the media want you to play.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away fromextinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must befought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day wewill spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children whatit was once like in the United States where men werefree." -- Ronald Reagan

remember

Andrew Breitbart...American Hero

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